WALLACE PRIZE
D. DUNAWAY
Getting Along

The summer started with Patty dying, and though it was difficult, Harrison’s father told him that death was simply a part of life. Patty had […]

July 13, 2020

Anasthasia Shilov
JORDAN CUTLER-TIETJEN & LIANA VAN NOSTRAND
Announcing the winners of the 2019 Wallace Prize

  The Yale Daily News Magazine is thrilled to publish the winners of the 2019 Wallace Prize. The Wallace Prize recognizes previously unpublished fiction and […]

April 20, 2019

PAUL GROSS
Laying Day

It was Laying Day. Sam shivered in line outside Susan B. Anthony High School and chewed over the rumors: The exacting judges, the rare perfect […]

April 20, 2019

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SAMARA ANGEL
Purple Flowers

Ms. Blok wears see-through, cream-colored shirts to school every day. Her bra today is dark purple, clearly a size too small for her, and her […]

April 20, 2019

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APARNA NAIR-KANNEGANTI
A Portrait of the Art Historian as a Young Man

She was wearing a black dress, he thought. Or at least it looked black; in this dimness (“warehouse lighting,” he called it privately, “ambiance lighting,” […]

April 20, 2019

Keyi Cui
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CHARLIE LEE
Mama’s Boy

My mom is a straight-laced and unimpulsive woman. She votes early in every election, makes grocery lists of seasonal health foods three months in advance […]

April 20, 2019

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MARIAH KREUTTER
34I

Jeniene Ferguson looks like she’s about a 36B, give or take a cup size. I’m not the first person to try and guess. Her male […]

April 20, 2019

NICOLE BLACKWOOD
The Season

The acceptance letter is enclosed in a glossy red folder, the kind that shows sweat marks when you take your thumbs off. There’s a picture […]

April 20, 2019

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